Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Firstly Her Majesty recalled that The Hague Conference quarrel ended, if not amicably, at least in a formal agreement by the Great Powers to adopt the Young Plan which will take the payment of German Reparations out of politics and put it on a business basis. "Great is our joy that the Conference achieved this success!" cried Queen Wilhelmina...
...Senhorita Alicia Sampaio, daughter of the Brazilian consul general at Manhattan, christened a Sikorsky amphibian Pernambuco. It left New York for Pernambuco, its station, to be ready for the opening of its 8,500 New York Buenos Aires line on or about Oct. i. Formal opening depends on the start from New York of the 32-passenger Consolidated Commodore, biggest U. S. flying boat, which the company has just bought...
...conditions, general ill-health. Dr. Edward Joseph Hill of Newark, N. J.. tried to introduce the claim of Dean Henry Hurd Rusby of Columbia's Department of Pharmacy that rotten ergot causes many of these deaths (TIME, July 22). The American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons (formal name of the Memphis conferees) assigned the topic to a special investigating committee...
Beginning today, the regular five o'clock calisthenics class will be held under the direction of Mr. John Wallen. This class which is open to all members of the University meets daily, but attendance is not compulsory. The class is semi-formal and conducted to piano accompaniment...
Peiping, China, Sept. 27. Professor James M. Woods of Harvard, Member of the Corporation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, was present at the formal ceremonies attending the opening of Yenching University here today. There were begun the dedication exercises which were postponed two years ago because of the unsettled conditions in the country...